• Get a Facebook account http://www.facebook.com

• Add the developer application http://developers.facebook.com/get_started.php

• Documentation is available at http://wiki.developers.facebook.com

• The following platform client libraries are avaiable:

• PHP • JavaScript • Connect for iPhone • Flash/ActionScript • ASP.NET • ASP (VBScript) • Cocoa • Coldfusion • C + + • C# • D

• Emacs Lisp • Erlang • Google Web Toolkit • Java • Lisp • Perl • Python • Ruby on Rails • Small Talk • VB.NET • Windows Mobile

• Facebook allows you to integrate applications into many different areas of Facebook including:

• Users’ profiles • Users’ boxes • Users’ tabs • Inviting users’ friends to add application

• Applications must be built, tested and hosted on your own server

Set upFacebook

ReadDocumentation

DownloadLibrary

Build & Test App

Integrateinto Facebook

Screenshots of the HBLLFacebook Application

List of items placedin a user’s folder

About the application page with links to the library’s Facebook page

Inviting friends to use theapplication

Harold B. Lee Library’s Application:http://www.facebook.com/ apps/application.php?id=21310504904

Source Code: http://mdrive.lib.byu.edu/~jlh39/code/facebook.zip

Jared HowlandElectronic Resources Librarian

jared_howland@byu.edu801-422-3416